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Type: Novelist Quotes Category: American Novelist Quotes Date of Birth: April 17, 1897 Date of Death: December 7, 1975 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Thornton Wilder Related Authors: Ernest Hemingway Richard Bach Elie Wiesel Gore Vidal Jack Kerouac Toni Morrison Harper Lee Louisa May Alcott Sidney Sheldon Widget to Facebook, MySpace, iGoogle, Blogger, and more |
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A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.
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Thornton Wilder A play visibly represents pure existing. Thornton Wilder An incinerator is a writer's best friend. Thornton Wilder But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone. Thornton Wilder Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger. Thornton Wilder For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation? Thornton Wilder Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. Thornton Wilder I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts. Thornton Wilder I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for. Thornton Wilder I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island. Thornton Wilder If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent. Thornton Wilder In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide. Thornton Wilder It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves. Thornton Wilder It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness. Thornton Wilder Literature is the orchestration of platitudes. Thornton Wilder Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value. Thornton Wilder Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day. Thornton Wilder Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them. Thornton Wilder Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday. Thornton Wilder Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder. Thornton Wilder |
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